Roberto Minerva

Telekom Italia, Italy

Roberto
Minerva holds a Ph.D in Computer Science and Telecommunications from Telecom
Sud Paris, France, and a Master Degree in Computer Science from Bari
University, Italy.

Roberto is now
in TILab of Telecom Italia in the Research Coordination group, working to
create advanced scenarios derived from the application of emerging ICT
technologies with innovative business models especially in the area of Software
Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization, Internet of Things, distributed
computing, programmable networks, personal data and self-organizing networks. He
held many responsibilities within Telecom Italia Lab: Innovative Architectures,
Network Intelligence, Wireless Architecture and Business Services Area Manager.

Roberto has
been also a contract Professor at Turin’s Polytechnics teaching a course on
mobile services.

Roberto is the
Chairman of the IEEE IoT Initiative aiming at creating within IEEE a large
technical community and to leverage the knowledge and skills available within
IEEE.

Since 1987 he
has been involved in the development of Service Architectures for Telecom
(TINA, OSA/Parlay and SIP), in activities related to IMS, and in the definition
of services for the Business market (context-awareness, ambient intelligence
and automotive). More recently his contribution is in the area of new
architectures for the service provision with particular attention to data
centric and user centric solutions. Under this perspective he is currently
involved in Telecom Italia activities related to SDN, NFV, 5G, Big Data,
architecture for IoT, and ICT technologies for leveraging new business models.

Roberto is
authors of several papers published in international conferences, books and
magazine.